Alexander Vladimirovich Zotov is a famous Russian footballer representing the Yenisei football club. Plays as a midfielder. He played for the national team of Russia until the age of 21.
Biography
The future footballer was born in August 1990, on the twenty-seventh, in the small Russian village of Askiz, which is located in Khakassia. When Alexander was small, his family first moved to Neryungri, and then to Moscow, where he began to learn the skills of a football player. Zotov was an active child and wanted to play sports. He especially liked to play football. Parents for a long time could not decide where to give their son. On viewing at one of the best clubs in the country FC Spartak, luck smiled at him, Alexander was able to impress the team's coaches and was accepted into the youth team of Spartak.
Career
Until 2008, Alexander played exclusively for the Spartak youth team. In that year, he signed the first professional contract in his career and in November made his debut for the main team. Then he first appeared on the international stage, he was declared for the UEFA Cup matches against Zagreb Dynamo, London Tottenham and Dutch NEK. In total, in the debut season, Zotov spent four games on the field.
For five seasons, Alexander tried to take a place at the base of “Spartak”, but he was not able to prove to the coaches that he deserves to be an important player in the club. In early 2011, Zotov was sent on loan to the Zhemchuzhina football club from Sochi, who played in the championship a lower rank (FNL). For six months, he appeared on the field 18 times and even scored a goal. Unfortunately, the club could not withstand the enormous financial burden and was removed from the competition. Alexander returned to Spartak, where he played out the rest of the season, appearing on the field in the colors of “red-white” seven times.
From the new season, he again went on loan, this time to the Tomsk club Tom. Having played there one season, Zotov moved to Yaroslavl, where he played for the local Shinnik club. In 2014, having failed to gain a foothold in Spartak, he again went to another club on loan, this time in Tula, to defend the colors of the local Arsenal club. For all the years of traveling, he appeared on the field 171 times and scored eight times in scoring an opponent. When Alexander ended the contract, the leadership of Spartak did not renew the agreement with him, and Zotov, as a free agent, transferred to Dynamo Moscow.
But even there, Alexander did not become a base player, in 2018 he was rented by the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei, and a year later the Siberian club finally bought the player. Alexander continues to play for this team. The footballer is happy in his personal life - he has a charming wife Daria and little son Timofey.
